We know what works when it comes to safety campaigns, and are dedicated to making change that lasts. Our work is delivered in partnership with a diverse range of public sector and charitable organisations who share our goals of helping women and LGTBQI+ people to live safe in public space.
Grey City Festival
Building event safety skills for DIY artists
In 2026, Good Night Out partnered with Grey City, the first edition of a new volunteer-run, non-profit, four-day festival platforming artists from across Europe and the UK.
We recruited a diverse group of grassroots musicians from Berlin’s independent music scene who were organising, attending and in some cases also performing at the festival. Across two 3hr training sessions, we gave participants practical skills in de-escalation, welfare support, harm reduction, drug and alcohol overdose response and supporting people experiencing difficult situations. We supported them to create a structure, shift pattern and wellbeing support system. Our aim was to build on the skills and relationships they already bring to their creative and community work, rather than bringing in an external security team.
The team then put this training into practice across the four-day festival, working alongside bands, performers, organisers and audiences as part of the Grey City x GNO safety crew, acting as visible, approachable points of support throughout the event, helping artists and audiences feel safer and responding when people needed support.
The practical safety and care skills trainees recieved they then took back into their own bands, events, venues and wider grassroots work, creating a ripple effect beyond the festival itself. Since then, at least four participants have been able to take on paid shifts doing awareness and welfare work at other events and venues in the city.
On working with us...
“Working with Good Night Out was amazing. We knew we needed a safety concept that would be accessible and work in practice, rather than just another list of rules, but we were not sure where to begin. So many of us have dealt with things like sexual harassment and spiking overdoses in our scene over the years, but none of us had any training in this kind of work.
GNO gave us two connected sessions at no cost and helped us build a team, concept, and structure. It really gave me more confidence to take on this role. We even got a certificate because the training is accredited, so it’s been great to add this to my CV and be able to take on paid safety work at events to supplement my artistic income. More than this, it was just really valuable to talk face-to-face with my collaborators on subjects that people sometimes prefer to avoid, but as a woman artist I face every day. We’re excited to work with the team again next year and keep fine-tuning our approach..”
— Grey City Berlin – Valentina, Graphic Designer & Guitarist
The Bureau of Artistic Indecency is a global artist collective building a platform that encourages a decentralized structure of creative power. Within the bubble of subculture, our attention is often unwittingly drawn towards the output of musicians above other types of artistry. Dominant culture demands a focus on cis-white-male achievement and this is so often reflected back to us through the sphere of the punk scene.
This exhibition highlighted the talents of women and gender non-conforming folk that may be underrepresented in the contemporary punk scene, but are nevertheless central to its vitality and documentation. It’s our world, too.
With pieces by Alex Miklowski, Alina Pleska, Amy Haghebaert, Anna Mahone, Arielle McCuaig, Bere Medina, Brandi Strauss, Bree Crosby, Cecile Ibáñez, Charvel Rappos, Claudia Aïcha, Darya Yuferova, Debora Gomes, Diana Damewood, Diana Ryndyuk, Holly Hang, Jeanne Geise, Lia Kantrowicz, Luan Sandküler, Maëlle Le Montagner, Manon Monjaret, Marie Laforge, Miriam Beer, Mister Sister, Natalia Kasiarz, Oyèmi Hessou, Patrícia Carvalho, Rosina Marie, Sera Helen, Veronika Marks, and Yasmin Amling.
